Test-drive A Teaching Key to Asters.
See herbarium specimens at the Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants.
You may also want to look at The Connecticut Botanical Society's guide to New England asters
Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Sericocarpus asteroides
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Sericocarpus asteroides
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 179-47-001:
Aster paternus
FAMILY
Asteraceae
COMMON NAME:
Toothed White-topped Aster
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_seas3_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm0506j_13
June Oconee County SC
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JK Marlow jkm0506j_16
June Oconee County SC
The 1/2" heads are borne in flat-topped clusters, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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JK Marlow jkm0506j_18
June Oconee County SC
Leaves elliptic, lower with a petiole & a few teeth, upper smaller & sessile, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_s_asteroides
June
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JK Marlow jkm060704_021
July Greenville County SC
Rays broader than those of S. linifolius, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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JK Marlow jkm060704_024
July Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm060704_024b
July Greenville County SC
The so-called White-topped Asters have about 5 rays and creamy-white disks, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmsasteroides_buzroost2
Month Unknown Oconee County SC
Buzzard Roost Heritage Preserve
Involucres narrowly campanulate to cylindric, upper bracts usually squarrose, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
COMPARE
involucral bracts of North American asters
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmsasteroides_buzroost3
Month Unknown Oconee County SC
Buzzard Roost Heritage Preserve
Coastal Plain populations are rhizomatous, while inland populations are not, per Weakley's Flora.